COMM 202 - Midterm 3 Notes - Reading EFF Press Release...

Reading: EFF Press Release, White House Press Release, Software Publisher's Press release, Supreme Court Ruling, Platt, "NetSex" Net Regulation · The Great Internet Porn Scare of 1995 (Rimm Study) o Rimm Study  Researcher at Carnegie Mellon  80% of info on porn websites are pornographic  Analyzed “adult” BBS to compile info o Time Cover (And a Critique of the Time article )  Read “Cyberporn” o Critique of the Rimm Study  Could not be peer reviewed  Not critical critique · What is Censorship? o Government steps in a makes prohibitions about what can/cannot be said (i.e. child porn) o Certain things are obscene and don’t have the right to be said · What and Who Can Be Censored? · What is Regulation? o Government steps in and says there are certain things that can or cannot be said based on time and place o Things that look like regulation can acutally be censorship 1

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· What and Who Can Be Regulated? Software Solutions: companies create fitting software; blocking filters; like Cypernanny; imperfect – cannot catch everything around · The CyberNOT list · CyberNOT search Engine · AOL's Bad Word List · CyberPatrol Supoenas o Bought by mattel o Encrypting list of sites blocked o Mattel trying to get rid of “Cphack” program that lets customers view that is cyberpatrol blocking software is off limits o Mattel offers $25K for these software but they are free to everyone · I-Gear 's latest rating. o 74% error rate · And just for the hell of it cphack and cp4break.zip · Plus, How they did it! o “censorware” product intended to prevent users from accessing internet content considered harmful The newest threat! · Surf control – work place productivity tools active monitoring tracks everything you do on the net and sends it to your boss What the CDA is and what it means/meant · Title V o Illegal to put anything indecent on the net o “obscene, harassing, & wrongful utilization of telecommunications facilit-ies” 2

o AKA “communication act of 1996” Based on the Communications Act of 1934 · Created FCC · Had to guarantee that no minors can see bad things on the internet Cultural Responses · Black Pages (Black Thursday) o Turned web pages black · Blue Ribbons o EFF – electronic frontier foundation o Support free speech · Banned Site List Here · and even a Hacked Page Four Degrees of Separation · White house to Hustler The Difference Between Obscenity and Indecency · Miller Test 1973 · 3 prong test o community standards: designed to titillate or excite average person would find it pornographic

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